The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-29
MANY LIVES LOST
In A SCOTLAND MINE EXPLOSION.
A CALCUTTA STEAMER CAUGHT IN A
CYCLONE AND STILL MISSING.


GLASGOW, Nav 2s.-A terrible ex-
plosion has occurred in the Udston coal
pit at Blantyne, in Lanarkshire, eighty
miles from this city. Two hundred and
twenty miners are entombed in the pit
and it is feared that all have perished.
The shaft is blocked with debris. caused
by the explosion.
Further particulars of the explosion
in the Udston pit show the number of
men entombed to be less than at first re-
ported. Forty-five miners, who were
imprisoned i'm the upper seam of the pit,
were rescued, but one of them died
after being brought to the surface. The
others are suffering, however, from the
effects of the shock and fire damp. Ac-
cess to the lowest seam, where seventy
men are confined, is found to be blocked
by the debris tumbled down by the ex-
plosion IL vas in this seam that the ex-
pIosion occurred, and it is not believed
that any of the seventy men down there
can be rescued alive. 1t is even thought
that they are all dead now. There are
seventy others still imprisoned in the
middle seam, but hopes are entertained
of saving most of these. The volunteers
working for their rescue can hear them
calling for help. Cries of come,
help "come quickly" have been heard
frequently.
The Udstone pit is situated in the most
fiery of the coal districts of Scotland.
and as soon as the fact of the explosion
became known miners from all the col
liel les hurried to the scene to hel in the
work of the rescue. Communication
was opened this afternoon with the mid
die seam, and numbers of miners en-
tombed therein, were rescued alive, al
though much prostrated from fire damp.
Five bodies We're found in this seam.
The lowest seam has been reached but
too late To rescue any of the miners who
We're at work there, as not one of the
unfortunate men was found alive. Total
number of lives lost by the explosion is
believed to be seventy-five.
The New Ministry Moderate Republicans.
LONDON, May 2S.-The Paris cores
pondent of the Times telegraphs that
Rouvier has formed the cabinet as fol-
lows Rouvier, Premier and Minister of
Finance Flourens, Minister of Foreign
Affairs Spuller, Minister of Justice (;
FaIlieres, Minister of the Interior and
Public Worship; Gen. Saussier, Minister
of War Admiral Jaures, Minister Of
Marine; Develle, Minister of Ag-
riculture Etienne, Minister of
Public Works; Cochery, Minister
of Posts and Telegraphs Berthelot,
Minister of Public Instruction. The
cabinet is composed, the correspondent
SAYS of the moderate republicans or of a
Union of the Left, and its operation
will be a trial of the reaction against
radicalism, militaryism and socialism.
The party of the Right, with a sense Of
their own security, have promised the
new ministry full support. President
Grevy has been for a long time reluc-
tant, adds the correspondent, to make
the trial, but he finally consented. The
next few days." the Times dispatch
saws i'm conclusion, Twill be eventful for
France. An attempt may be made To
induce some of the previous ministers to
oppose the new Rouvier policy, and the
issue might be strange and unexpected.